JOBS is an innovative supported employment and intensive case management service that targets youth ages 16 – 22 with severe emotional disturbance. The targeted youth are out of school or seriously at risk of dropping out and are at high risk for or have experienced involvement with Corrections, substance abuse, homelessness, physical abuse or other concerning behaviors.  

Contact Us

Phone: (802)479-4055

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.wcmhs.org 

CSIP is a street outreach program offering a variety of supports to marginalized and disconnected individuals; helping them access services and resources needed to build self-sufficiency. CSIP supports those who are homeless, connected with the criminal justice system and/or addiction treatment programs.

Contact: Nicole Sorrell – 661-5671

The Doula Project includes three components – prenatal, labor and postpartum support. The components are approached with the understanding that women suffering from mental health issues, with cognitive limitations, who are trauma survivors or who struggle with addictions have a unique set of needs. The project is available to any woman who receives or is eligible to receive services from WCMHS.

Contact: Maria Rossi—522-8637

The Child Grant Wellness Program is grant funded through SAMSHA to work with area doctors’ offices to promote integrated health care. The team works with youth ages 0-22, and their families, on Wellness Goals. The team can work with youth on an individual or group basis. Examples of activities that the team has provided includes but is not limited to: Mountain Biking, Swimming and swim lessons, Mommy and baby yoga, Kettlebell and Mace workouts, Emotional regulation activities,  

Dance group, Gymnastics, Powerlifting and general strength training, Functional Fitness, Game based activities.

With all wellness activities the team strives to promote both physical and mental stamina and fortitude, catering services to the individual’s needs. 

Contact: Joanna Hull—661-5698

PCIT is a unique approach that uses intensive parent coaching to promote positive communication and discipline for families with children ages 2 1⁄2 through 6 years. PCIT is the only evidence-based practice in which the parent and child are treated together throughout the course of treatment. The therapist communicates with the parents from behind a one-way mirror through a wireless in-ear speaker while the parent plays with the child. PCIT is a specific, step by step coached behavioral training model that has two phases: Child Directed Intervention, (CDI), and Parent Directed Intervention, (PDI).

Phoenix classes offer full body functional movement and strength training. Great for strength, flexibility, cardiovascular and general health. Repetition, sets and intensity can be tailored for the beginner or elite athlete depending upon fitness level.

Contact: Maria Rossi – 522-8637

The Adult Access Program provide adults with emergent and urgent needs assessment, brief treatment, stabilization, and referrals. The program provides services for clients through collaborative services within the human services system. Adult Access uses a mobile treatment model and provides home/field-based services in partnership with the Emergency Screeners and Outpatient Program at WCMHS. If home-based services are not needed, brief therapeutic case management can be provided in an office setting.

Contact: Jackie Jones—661-5682

The Community Support Program's Counseling Services helps to develop psychotherapy relationships utilizing a strength based, recovery-oriented approach through office-based services and community outreach. Our team of therapists utilize Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Positive Psychology, EMDR. among other techniques focusing on stress reduction, trauma, and issues across the lifespan. We try to continually update and refine our approaches to better meet the changing needs of consumers.

Contact: Mark Schmoll – 223-6328

The mission of The Wellness Collaborative is to provide, through a trauma informed holistic approach to health, balance and recovery, the tools to raise the wellness and quality of life for clients who are dealing with severe challenges and the stresses of daily living. We aspire to support empowerment and self-sufficiency through self-care techniques and wellness-based therapies as a means of healing and coping in daily life so that clients can achieve their highest potential and thrive in their environments.

Contact: Sally Olmsted—479-4083

Our Reach-Up Program is a collaboration between Economic Services and WCMHS, to serve participants struggling with mental health and/or substance use. Our participants must meet ESD requirements for Reach-Up financial assistance. We offer screening, clinical assessment, case management and service coordination to support clients at whatever stage they are at. We utilize harm reduction and trauma informed models.

Contact: Jackie Jones—661-5682

The Imagination Station The Imagination Station is a specific kind of sensory room known as a Snoezelen Room. Coined in the ’70s by two Dutch therapists, the Dutch hybrid word — pronounced “snooze-a-lin” — directly translates as “sniffing and dozing”, meaning to explore and relax. The Imagination Station is the only Snoezelen Room in Northern New England.

The most important part of the Snoezelen experience is not the equipment, but the control people with autism over their environment. The ability to make the experience truly theirs is what makes this visit truly special.

The Imagination Station was brought to us by the Autism Puzzle Foundation. Randi Lamberti, a  local financial adviser, was inspired to help  Vermont families affected by autism, and was a co-founder of The Autism Puzzle Foundation of Vermont,  whose Board donated upwards of $75,000 for Snoezelen Room equipment; WCMHS used its own funds and in-house staff to transform  former office and storage areas into the Imagination Station, which is dedicated to the memory of Lamberti’s late mother, Kay Lamberti.

The room can be booked from 9:00-3:30 in private, one -hour blocks Monday through Friday. 

Please call (802) 470-4055 

Heather Slayton @ [email protected]

If this is an emergency please call (802) 229-0591.

For Crisis Services:

You can contact the Emergency Services Team by calling (802) 229-0591 or by visiting the office during normal business hours:

286 Hospital Loop

Building C, Physician’s Building

Berlin, VT 05602

For Psychiatric & Nursing Services:

For access to WCMHS services, you can also call (802) 229-0591 and ask to speak to one of our friendly Intake Coordinators. You will be asked what kind of services you are seeking and depending on your answer (children’s services, adult mental health services) you will be directed to the correct person. You may also be asked some routine questions and to schedule a brief interview to begin the process of accessing services. If you are not sure what services you are seeking, or what programs we offer, WCMHS will work with you to help you determine and access the services you may need.